once again I ask for areas.
It would be so great, cause most costs in early time of designing depend on areas more than on volumes.
Costs per m2 would complete your program so wunderfull - and it would be the only plugg-in for Sketchup solving that problem.
Please try it and give me an answer.
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We added another way to get areas.
- If you place a face in the layer _SP_AREA within a component or group, it will use that face (including scaling) to determine the area of the Component or Group
- We added some $ attributes - $area, $area_sqft, $area_sqm, and $area_sqcm which are set the the area defined for an attribute.
The first test started were very fine.
There are some aspects I will have to try later - I have not too much time these days.
But these plugin seemes quite good.
We're not ready to make a MAC version yet.
I agree a generalized reporting tool that exports areas and distance would generate some very useful information from sketchup models. Estimating, site planning ratios, wall opening percentages, etc.
Will this plugin might work in on mac OSX?
We don't want to post it to the doenload area until it has had a little more testing.
We uploaded the new version, KC18, with the define area function added as a right click choice: "SpaceDesign/define area"..
It can be dowloaded from this link:
SpaceDesign_KC18sd.zip
Sorry, the release got held up.
I received a request from another user to report on linear lengths, in addition to areas and volumes. It is hard to draw linear items in SketchUp. (The pencil tool does strange things if you follow the edge of an existing face, or it you click on a point already in the path), so we decided to write a new tool to create linear objects (conduit, wire, pipes, etc.) where each segment would be a separate group, or the entire object would be a group, and use them for reporting. I have not completed this yet, so I will remove it any try to put out a new version today.
If I am successful, I will post it here in this thread, so you, (and others), can try the area stuff, before we post it to the download site.
Dear Al Hart,
I'm really exited for the release!
Thanks,
Gerald
This is working pretty well.
Some component have a face which represents the area you want to report. So just right click on the component, select "SpaceDesign: Define Area", and select a face in any instance of the component.
For some Components, this may not be possible.
In the report below, both walls are the same Component, but 1 is scaled in the Z-direction. The area only had to be defined for one instance, and it was scaled properly to match the second component. (Susan does not have an area because we did not define an area for her - we could have if we had wanted to)
Look for this is a release of SpaceDesign next week.
Gerald sent a reminder that you can get the area of a face from SketchUp:
It would work like this:
To define and use areas for a component:
(Or %a-m% for square meters, %a-cm% for square centimeters or %a-f% for square feet.)
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